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Gary Snyder

POEMS FROM MYTHS & TEXTS (1960)“‘Deer’—I dance on all the mountains…”

Reed College, February 14, 1956

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This poem became “Hunting 8.” Variants. In Line 7 “down” for “back” in published text. In “Home by night” section, a line is read that was later cut: “Nothing has been explained” after the line “A mile past the mill-pond.” In Line 42, “Orion” comes after “hunter’s belt”; cut from final. Before Line 47, Snyder says: “Little Tlingit Song.” After Line 51, four lines added: “Bucked logs lie by the skid-trail / Deer thread through / Cat shut down / Men all eating lunch.” These lines were cut from published text.